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Teapot
c. 182019th Century
8 in. x 3 3/4 in. x 3 3/4 in.
Unidentified,
Object Type:
Decorative Art
Medium and Support:
stoneware
Credit Line:
Florence Griswold Museum; Gift of the Old Lyme-Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library, from the Evelyn McCurdy Salisbury Collection
Accession Number:
1981.32.a&b
An English black "Basaltware" tea pot with a ribbed lid and body bordered by lines of beaded ornament and textured, cross-hatched bands at the base and rim. The upper rim of the pot has a fern-like band of decoration, complimented by leaf patterns on the spout. It has a very ornate rococco-style handle.
Spreading foot below an expanding body of alternating thick and thin vertical bulges, reaching a sharp-edged shoulder and continuing in a concave area below a concave band bordered by a rouletted row of beads, rising to a sloped, polished quarter inch band below a one inch band with a fine textile like surface, surmounted by similar rouletted row of beads, topped by a row of rouletted vertical pine cones; the bell-formed cover—en suite with the body—sits in a deep collar and is topped by a squat mushroom cap knop; the highly ornate, press-molded handle and spout is curved overall like an elephant’s trunk, with a flattened top, and embellished with molded floral decoration on top and miniature pine trees on the sides
Spreading foot below an expanding body of alternating thick and thin vertical bulges, reaching a sharp-edged shoulder and continuing in a concave area below a concave band bordered by a rouletted row of beads, rising to a sloped, polished quarter inch band below a one inch band with a fine textile like surface, surmounted by similar rouletted row of beads, topped by a row of rouletted vertical pine cones; the bell-formed cover—en suite with the body—sits in a deep collar and is topped by a squat mushroom cap knop; the highly ornate, press-molded handle and spout is curved overall like an elephant’s trunk, with a flattened top, and embellished with molded floral decoration on top and miniature pine trees on the sides
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